tdiu I Am Not Sure Where To Put This, Thew Ongoing Struggle With The Va Has Left Me So Messed Up

[retiredat44]

I started my last group of claims in 2009. I wanted to in 2008, but after almost dying and hospitalized for many months... the VSO at the service agency said they could not get me an appointment for many months. I started with many claims again, I was sick on active duty from chemicals. I worked with fuels, and other. I filed for more disability claims, I had already won a claim for 50% for headaches on active duty for chemicals. I got sick from jet fuel, leaded gasoline, diesel fuel, and then trichloroethylene. I was told and my command were told I could no longer with chemicals because of severe reactions, severe swelling and headaches. and rashes. They USAF then made me with more chemicals, Trichloroethylene. I got sick again. I had to leave the USAF after 5 years. Anyways, I my filed claims, the VSO typed fuels in the claims form. All of the decisions come back with only jet fuel listed in the denials.

Brings me to now. I left San Diego, last year and moved to Oregon. I moved my claims to the VSO in Salem. They said just try for TDIU. I was ambushed by a C&P exam doctor who was just out to use anything she could against me! No impartial exam here! I was denied. I got an appointment with the VSO again, and the supervisor and her sat me down, and tried to tell me the VA has no obligation to list al of the chemicals I worked with. As they only list jet fuel. They say the IMO I gave them was very good, but that since the studies included did not include al chemicals and the ones that did only had animal studies for chemical exposure, they were not good enough. I was told life is tough suck it up! I was told to get more IMO's as it is a battle of experts. And that we just have to have more then the VA. They also infer there is no relationship between the fuels and disease. They just hammered me like they were actually pure advocates for the VA and not me! I was and I am total shock that they had no sympathy for me! Horrible! I wish I had a tape or transcript for the world to see the abuse we get in the VA claims process!

They read to me what happened in the VA failed VA surgery, not sure which one, the first or second attempt to removed a large cyst on my pancreas that had been growing for at least 20 years while I begged for help while they treated me like I was mentally ill ending me to head doctors, instead of helping my pancreas disease! Apparently they punctured a part of my pancreas with a needle or surgical instrument and which sent me into a 6 month death spiral in the hospital. It left me with a dying inoperable pancreas disease on one notch from cancer. I have necrotizing pancreatitis, no hope of any future surgeries. I will kill me at any time, the surgeons cannot tell me how long I have left. I live by eating with morphine for pain. BTW, the pain doctor at the VA in Oregon sucks! crazy people here... They think you can just will your way out of pain! Who's the loon !!??

Again, I wish I could have transcripts, so everyone can see the abuse! The VSO here is an advocate for the VA and against claimants! I am not making this stuff up!

They demand I get more evidence, more IMHO's at $2,000 a pop! (that is a scheme to drain your resources and kill the will of the claimant, as the VA has no accountability in the process. no oversight) Period. There is no way to know what they base their decisions on if in fact they do not have to list al evidence as according to the direct words of the supervisor of my VSO!

I am way out of my depth here as we should not need to have a lawyer preset every time we speak to anyone for any VA agency, yet they take every word and twist it into complete b.s. and lies! We need help in fighting the VA, it is not possible for sick people go into this process and be ambushed by ever those who are suppose to help us with claims! Yet they are actually sabotaging our claims.

They supervisor actually had the nerve to say I had necrotizing pancreatitis long before the failed operations at the VA. Telling me that something life sucks and to suck it up. One more thing, my father who was a Navy disabled vet who died young from CPOD. They said he had a nerve condition which I inherited. There is no proof, only that at one time they questioned me about my family's health and that I had stated he was shaky and sick, as so most people who are dying of CPOD. They said I said he was shaky so that means he gave the gene to me. Total B.S.

They asked what the edema is, that I still from, as I did from the chemicals on active duty. I was so swollen, my limbs broke open bleeding. My arms and legs are still swollen, Sore take forever to heal. I am still being treated for these conditions at the VA. The VSO asked me if I still l am swollen, and I said yes I am. it is permanent, on more condition form pancreas disease.

I did file an 1151 for the medical problems and near death, and a fatal disease. I was told by the VSO that unless it causes death by negligence they will not help me pursue that either!

The VSO stated with will no longer move my claims to appeals without more evidence.

I am so angry, so mad, I really want to send this letter to a congressmen to let them know the abuse we take by the VA scum!

If someone if offended too bad! I If I said what I really think, I would be kicked off this board for going way way too far! but believe me, to far isn't far enough! This struggle is too much for me too take, everyday I wake up to sick to die, shove the pain pills, and 15 other pills down. And to top this off I know the day I die is coning, I just don't know if it's 5 minutes or???? The surgeons tell me it usually comes with jaundice, and to watch for yellow skin and eyes. I forgot the mention my blood pressure can be very erratic, either very high of very low in an attack. In an attack I am helpless to do anything! Not even stand. Just curl up crying for hours or days.

dealing with rotten people should be an advocates job, not a sick Veteran's!

[retiredat44]

I wanted to say the soc, and any ssoc's were not as informative to anyone reading these. I took my (boxes) of the 'Progress Notes' from the time as an inpatient and was able to find more evidence for my behalf. So, ordering copies of all of the progress notes was the best thing I could have done to boost the SOC statements, showing what they did step by step, while I was unaware on the operating table what they actually did, vs. the statements made in the SOC. The VA really complained to me about my ordering of the documents because it took Zerox boxes to put all of the printed in patient records into (6 months in patient records). A few years ago, I went and asked, 'requested' copies of my medical records and they were pissed at me because they had to work a long time to gather and printed hundred thousand pages. I never read them all, I am sure there is plenty more evidence to dig out. (It took a dolly on wheels to move the records into the federal building , through the metal detectors' , and my wife helped move the documents.) While it may not have been necessary to bring all of the records, all of the boxes of records made a good visual aide. plus if I needed anything, I had them with me. But, again, the VA has copies of my medical records I proved them to the VA many years ago. Just can't ever know if they read them.

 

The VA reps originally told me they would not help me with the 1151, I wrote that on my own! So, al I can say is maybe they are not allowed to say they won't help, by they will and can refuse. They did it to me. So, I had no clue how to write it, and got help from Berta, and so many others on these forums! Thank you! I am going to be sitting back and waiting and it might be along while before I know anything.

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Hang in there.............

[Gastone]

You've been jerking around with this for a long time, are you still using a VSO-Rep? WTF, Over?

Do me a favor, every couple lines, dbl space: makes the reading easier for Old Dogs.

I may have missed something, seems your getting Bxxxxed Slapped by the VA, and this has been going on since what, 2014. Your still relying on a VSO's representation? How's that been working out, SOC & SSOC's indicate, not to well.

I don't recall your saying anything about having a "Free Appeal Attorney Consult," did I miss that? If your only at 60% SC, plenty of RETRO on the table. A good VA Accredited Appeals Attorney would be salivating, if he believed your case had merit. Your not holding off on the Attorney because of the 20% of Retro Fee, right?

What DX's make up your 60% SC? Do any of these SC's actually, verify-ably make you IU? Did you have personal Earned Income of less than $12,400 over the past 12 calendar months? Maybe you've been IU for a long time, you'll be kicking yourself in the Axx, if that's the case.

Talk to a VA Appeals Attorney, you need Professional advice. Keep in mind, you could file for IU, even with an Appeal pending. You don't need your VSO, if you think you qualify, file for it on your E-Ben site.

Semper Fi

[retiredat44]

I started these claims with VA claim rep through the American Legion.  I first tried to get a paid consult but had no success. In the 1990's I went through Purple Heart. This time it was American Legion rep.

The reps were totally overwhelmed and they started to backlog badly where I was, they had people moving in and out so appointments were taking 6 months just to talk, even if you had already signed and were in the middle of claims and appeals. It was hell, a huge nightmare because they were backed up with 10,000 or more claims for each clam rep's office. I had to transfer to an office more than 1 hour away because they were so understaffed. it was hell! I later moved to another state after 5 years intro my appeals. Then the new state had no American Legion, they closed their offices here. I had to change to the Appeals claims office in the Salem VA office, and get a new rep. That to was a disaster. it took two years of trying to explain to them I was a transfer. By the time they got done screwing me around I was       burning through claims and appeals. I had already tried to contact some of the doctors and reps recommended on these boards, but could not get a response. I ended up writing my own 1151 because I was a couple weeks from missing a huge deadline. They finally got me a rep that would listen just a couple months before my BVA hearing. he had no background on me, because the person running the office was a total dirtbag who refused to listen at out first meeting. The rep that went with me helped a lot after I tried to give him some information, it is only that after 2 years of trying to get help, They only had a few short weeks to get info to help me. Not my fault I tied for 2 years to give them everything they needed, but they flat out refused, and treated me like I had never filed a claim before even though I started the claims process in 1995. I tried getting paid help, but it seemed like no one would listed, like the doctors they treated me like I was mentally ill. By the time anyone took me serious it was to late.

 

[retiredat44]

Update, well actually no update, but in short, had BVA hearing in March 2016, I don't expect any info for a few months...

I actually was hospitalized a few times on active duty, one for Gastritis, another time for Pneumonia. I was treated several times for toxic chemicals and severe headaches and swelling of my limbs, and also treated for a concussion. Worked with Chemicals. Doctors told my commands the chemicals caused me illness on active duty. 4.5 year active duty USAF.

 

I have necrotizing pancreatitis, and was constantly being told I was mentally ill and a drug seeker, while I had pancreatic disease, they refused to believe me.in the VA hospital for 6 months with 2 failed pancreas operations, fighting for my life as a quadriplegic.

 

Awaiting for the BVA to make a decision for all of the years the VA denied me, and my family.

 

currently at 60%. Stopped working in the 1990's and spent 20 years in bed sick.

6 months in VA hospital 1998. Pancreatic disease. necrotizing.

The illness is progressing into my stomach, and the surgeons told me, inoperable and it will progress, they could not tell me how long I have.

Every day is a hell of a fight.. morphine helps, but I take special meds that allow my intestines to absorb nutrients.

Hopefully I will hear something this summer?

[retiredat44]

Thank  you to all Vets who helped and put in a kind word.